1.9 Health and Safety Flashcards
What legal obligation do employers have?
To ensure that strict health and safety legislation is implemented
What are employees required to follow?
All procedures to eliminate health hazards and prevent accidents to themselves and others
What does lost time through injuries and investigated accident do?
Cost money and could affect the reputation of a business
What is an employer or an appointed health and safety officer responsible for?
Carrying out a range of tasks that help to prevent accidents and injuries
What must health and safety officers ensure?
All equipment, tools and machinery are safe to work with and are fitted with safety guards or emergency stop buttons
What needs to happen to ensure safety in working practises?
- Equipment, tools & machinery regularly maintained and tested
- Training and adequate supervision
- Ergonomically designed work station
- Dangerous items stored safely
- Accident reporting systems
- Welfare facilities
- Breaks
What are these practices designed for?
To keep people safe and free from harm, and are much the same across schools, colleges and industry
What are some safe working practices in school/ college workshops?
- No eating or drinking
- PPE must be worn
- Long hair tied back
- Work areas and walkways kept neat
- Spillages must be reported
- Breakages or damaged tools report
- Hands kept away from cutting blades
What is the Health and Safety at Work Act?
The primary piece of legislation covering workplace health and safety in Britain
What does the Health and Safety at Work Act state?
Employers must protect the health, safety and welfare of all employees to carry out risk assessments and put sensible measures in place to contol risk
What does Health and Safety at Work Act place an obligation on?
Employees to cooperate and report inadequacies in health and safety arrangements and not to interfere with or misuse anything provided to assure health, safety or welfare at work
What is the Health and Safety Executive do?
Responsible for enforcing the HSWA
What do employers need to do to comply with the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations?
Must carry out risk assessments to prevent, reduce or control their workers or adjacent workers exposure to substance that may be hazardous
What do hazardous textile substances include?
- Dyestuffs
- Bleaches
- Chemicals used to apply finishes to fabrics
- Adhesives
- Cleaning materials
What must hazardous substances carry?
A clear warning label that identifies what the hazard is
When is it mandatory to have a health and safety polically that formally records risk assessments?
I’m organisations where there are five or more employees
What must the employer or designated health and safety officer identify?
Potential hazards associated with the manufacturing process that might cause harm to people
What are the 4 stages of risk management?
- Identify hazards
- Assess the risks
- Plan and implement control measures
- Monitor and review
What happens in the identify hazards stage?
- Consider likely risks
- Use results of workplace inspections
- Ude incident reports
- Analyse risks of new machinery/ equipment
- Analyse risks in new or changed manufacturing processes
What happens in the assess the risks stage?
- Use risk assessment proforma
- Consider how severe the impact of the risk will be
- Rank the risks according to its likelihood of occurring
What happens in the plan and implement control measures stage?
- Change equipment or materials to remove a hazard
- Isolate people from hazard
- Improve training
- Change working methods/ systems
- Use PPE
- Set review dates
What happens in the monitor and review stage?
- Regularly monitor and review the effectiveness of control measures
- Check wether the situation has changed
- Check whether there are new risks emerging
What risk can handling heavy rolls of fabric cause?
- Back injury from lifting
- Foot or head injury if rolls fall from height
What safety precautions can be used for handling heavy rolls of fabric?
- Use lifting equipment
- Provide instruction on the correct way to lift heavy items
- Wear PPE: steel toe cap shoes and had hat
What risk can movement of heavy goods around the factory floor cause?
- Injury from impact with forklift truck or other vehicle
What safety precautions can be used for movement of heavy goods around the factory floor?
- Desinaged save zones or walkways
- Fit vehicles with flashing lights and/or reverse signal alarms
What risks can spreading and cutting fabric cause?
- Hand/finger injury from machines
- Inhalation of dust or dust irritant in eyes
What safety precautions can be used for spreading and cutting fabric?
- Use machine safety guards and operate only if trained
- Wear PPE: chain mail gloves, breathing mask and safety goggles
What risk can fusing press cause?
- Hand/ finger injury
- Burns from press
- Inhalation of unhealthy vapours
What safety precautions can be used for fusing press?
- Use presses only if trained
- Wear PPE: protective gloves and breathing mask
- Know first air procedures for burns
What risks can machine sewing cause?
- Hand/finger injury from sharp parts
- Hair/clothing entrapment
- Eye injury from breaking needles
- Back injury
What safety precautions can be used for machine sewing?
- Enshre needle guards in place, for emergency stop buttons
- Tie back long hair and wear overalls and safety glasses
- Use ergonomically designed work stations
What risks can pressing equipment cause?
- Burns or scalds from hot equipment
- Finger/hand injury from presses
What safety precautions can be used for pressing equipment?
- Use the equipment and steam presses only if trained
- Fit emergency stop buttons
- Turn on steam function only when ready to use
- Hand irons must be fitted with a thermostat to protect
What risks can during and printing fabric cause?
- Inhalation or eye contact with dyestuff or solvents
- Skin damage or reaction to contact with dyes
What safety precautions can be used for dyeing and printing fabric?
- COSHH safety labelling instructions on containers must be followed
- Ensure correct ventilation
- Wear PPE: dust mask, safety goggles, protective gloves and overalls
- Know first aid procedures
What risks can general working area cause?
- Tripping and falling
- Electric shocks
- RSI injuries
- Cuts and pricks from sharp points
What safety precautions can be used for general working area?
- Keep all work areas clear and tidy
- Maintain and regularly safety test electrical equipment
- Allow the workforce regular breaks
- Scissors kept in special holders
What risks can materials handling cause?
- Head injury from overhead conveyor system
- Hand/finger injury from conveyors
What safety precautions can be used for materials handling?
- Floor area painted with black and yellow warning stripes
- Provide designated safe zones or walkways
- Safety guards fitted and training in the handling of conveyors given
What risks can packaging machinery cause?
- Hand/finger injury
What safety precautions can be used for packaging machinery?
- Fit emergency stop buttons on machines
- Use packaging machinery only if trained
What do designers and manufacturers have responsibility of?
To consider the safety of potential users, safety legislation and standards are used to protect consumers from poor quality and unsafe products
What does legislation also protect?
Consumer rights, enabling customers to claim a refund if goods are faulty or do not meet the manufacturers performance claims
What laws relate to the design and manufacture of textiles products?
- The General Product Safety Regulations
- The Furniture and Furnishings Regulations
- The Trade Descriptions Act
What have the BSI and the European Committee for Standardisation produced?
A code of practice for the design and manufacture of children’s clothing to promote mechanical safety
What are some examples of safety standards in children’s clothing?
- No zips in trousers for boys under 5
- No components such as buttons that look or smell like food
- No hoods on sleepwear for babies under 12 months
- No loose threads
What is an offence under the Nightwear Regulations?
To supply nightwear that does not meet flammability performance regulations set by the BSI
What must nightwear that doesn’t meet flammability requirements have?
A permanent sew in label with ‘KEEP AWAY FROM FIRE’ in red letters
What labels must nightwear that mean BSI flammability requirements have?
- ‘LOW FLAMMABILITY TO BS 5722’ in black letters
- ‘KEEP AWAY FROM FIRE’ in red letters
What did the Consumer Rights Act do?
Safeguards consumers against faulty products
What does part 1 primarily relate to?
- Goods are to be satisfactory quality; commensurate to the price paid
- Goods are to be fit for purpose
- Goods are to be as described
When can consumers have the right to reject or return goods?
- 30 day period if goods do not meet the above terms
- After 30 days but within 6 months the product becomes defective
- Repair or replacement unsuccessful
What does the British Standards Institute work with?
Industry, the British government and overseas standards authorities to produce a set of voluntary standards that state essential technical requirements or performance codes
What can the BSI test?
Products and award a certification to say that the product conforms to the states British or European standard
What is the BSI Kitemark?
A quality mark to show that a product conforms to agreed standards
What are some hazards associated with textile toys?
- Soft toys with loose pile fabric
- Toys with small components
- Flammable toys and dressing up
- Toys with unrestricted toxic chemical substances
What is a lion mark?
A recognisable consumer symbol representing safety and quality, it verifies that members of the British Toy and Hobby Association, who conform to Toys Regulations and their own code of practice have made the toy
